Mar
Cybernet’s Amiga-Style PCs Now Quad-Core
Ah, Amiga, Amiga, only in Cybernet’s keyboard computers does your era’s computer design principles live on.
The modern fashion is to include the computer in the monitor housing (Cybernet makes one of those, too), with the keyboard as a peripheral. Back in the day, of course, it was precisely opposite, with large, wedge-shaped keyboards housing everything but the screen.
Cybernet’s latest Amigalike now supports Core 2 Quad and 4GB of RAM, a DVD burner and expansion cards thanks to Mini PCI. The GMA X3100 video chip inside it won’t make it a 21st-century Amiga in terms of gaming graphics (and that ugly trackpad seems pointless, unless it’s much lighter than it looks), but with prices starting at $630, it’s pretty cheap.
You also get 4 USB ports, a PCI-e slot (it doesn’t say what width, but I’ll bet you won’t be jamming 8800 Ultras in it), gigabit ethernet and, interestingly, a slot to hotplug 2.5" hard drives.
Previously: Amiga-Like PC in a Keyboard
Product Page [Cybernet via Engadget]
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